l$st 'THE MICHIGAN DAILY PRICE OF DIVERSITY: GAGE LINEN SHOP is the logieale enter for your GIFT-BUYING Bath Towel sets 3.40 - 3.85 - 5.00 - 6.25 Matching fingertips 40c - 50c - 65c - 75c each Scarfs, silk or wool, square or long Handkerchiefs for men and women A wide selection of Christmas designs in table cloths, tea towels with matching aprons, cocktail napkins and handkerchiefs, aprons of all descriptions and prices. Place Mats - Straw, plastic, match stick and Looper --35c, 50c, 75c 1.00 and up. Tablecloths, place mat sets, bridge and luncheon sets Linen toaster and Mixmaster covers- Hot roll covers, guest towels, sheet sets, pillow cases Bathroom rugs, Lidcovers, shower curtains are just a few of our many gift items. Come in while our selections are at their best and where Quality has no substitute. GAGE LINEN SHOP Open 9:00 to 5:30 Monday thru Saturday 11 NICKELS ARCADE ._. Christmas Greeting Cards More Elaborate, More Expensi -. se e dto h sta a 0Ik1JJ'. L0 1 send a Christmas card. cards sold thus far. "Most people All one had to do was to run N ho send out lots of cards order down to the local general store ahead of time, so that they can and pick one out of a pickle bar- have their name engraved on the rel. so to speak. The cost was not crs"teslsoa eotd high, five cents a card, and the ! "Our individual and small box verse was simple. card sales do not really begin un- A rather different scene has til the second week in December." since arisen. The price for diversi- "Normal" Christmas cards are fication runs high . .. somewhere not the only cards available, how- in the neighborhood of 15 to 25 ever. In specialty shops imported cents for a "normal" Christmas cards from many lands can be card, according to a local sales- found. Yule cards from Switzer- woman. "Any nice-looking 'meri- land. Belgium, Holland. Germany. can made Christmas card with a England. France, Italy, Spain and religious, traditional or contem- other countries generally cost fif- porary design," is a "normal" teen cents apiece. Christmas card, she said. Foreign Cards "Better Made" Gives Card Sales "Foreign cards are generally "The modern cards sell parti- made much better than those in cularly well in this University the United States," the elderly community," she continued. "But proprietor of a shop which carries in total sales, the traditional cards both types noted. "They are not showing Christmas trees, Santa products of mass production as Clauses and other typically 'Yule are the cards made here." scenes still reign supreme." J"'You don't pay for the weight She indicated there has been of paper products when shipping very little difference between this them from overseas," he contin- year and last in the number of ued. "Rather, you pay for the amount of space they take up." He indicated that most INTERNATIONAL GREETING - Merry Christmas wishes are printed in three languages-English, French and Spanish on the inside of this card, being sold on campus by Student Government Council for the benefit of the United Nations Children's Fund. Hatchers To Hold Annual Christmas Open House By JANE BENDER President and Mrs. Hatcher will hold their Christmas Open House between 4 and 6 p.m. Wednesday at their home. Mrs. Hatcher emphasized thatj an informal chat with the Presi- dent and herself. Dress, she stress- ed, is informal. The Psurfs, a singing group from the Law School, will provide the entertainment. This group was all students are invited to the open founded as the Ann Arbor Surf- house "to begin the Christmas board Riding and Mountain Climb- season with festivity." The after- ing Society in 1941. Due to the noon, she said, will be spent with fact that there is no place to ride entertainment, refreshments, and a surfboard or climb a mountain near Ann Arbor, the organization quainted with the President and took singing as a substitute and his home. called themselves the Psurfs. The House Has Tradition "P" stands for pseudo. The Presidents' home, built in The members are: Richard Ka 1841, is the oldest budlding on baker, 59L, Thamie Maoros, '59L, campus. It originally had eight Richard Bourne, '60L,'Gerald Ige, rooms, but several presidents since '59L, IDon Hovey, '62L, Glenn then have added rooms. President Sperry, '60L, Paul Lange, '60L, Bell and Mrs. Hatcher contributed the Bowser, '59L, and direbtor Clay outdoor terrace. Williams, '60L. Since the house was designed by To Sing Carols an Eastern architect, it resembles Among the songs they will pre- homes of that region built in the sent are: "Mary's Boy Child." a 1880's. Characteristic with J its r } Ii calypso Christmas carol; "Mary Had a Baby," an Appalachian song; "Oral Lee" and "The Boar's head." Music Makers have the Merriest Christmas These open houses began in M ake s hn et es Ch ist asl1935 with President Alexander G. Ruthven, and from then grew to be a University tradition. Since FINEST BRASS and WOODWIND INSTRUMENTS thonreedifferentsosois, ternities and dormitories. METRONOMES - GIFT ACCESSORIES The groups to be honored at this open house are: Alpha Omicron Pi, P1 Beta Phi, Alpha Delta Phi, Alpha Tau Omega, Phi Gamma Delta, Acacia, Kleinstueck, Victor arid for the Young or Young-at-Heart Vaughan, Reeves and Allen Rum- sey houses, the. Lawyers' Club, BONGOS MARACAS-UKULELES-RHYT HM INST RUMENTS Yost League House and the Inter- BCSSnational Center. Recorders $3.00 and UP EnjoysPresence Concerning the monthly teas, Mrs. Hatcher said "they are a superficial but a broad cross-sec- tional c'ontact of the student SPECIAL A'body." 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